Combined shirt-collar and necktie



(N0 Model.)

0. GERBER.

COMBINED SHIRT COLLAR AND N'EGKTIE.

No. 276,023. Patented Apr. 17,1883.

a WITNESSES INVENTOR ATTORNEYS;

NITED STATES CHARLES GERBER, OF YORK, PENNSYLVANIA.

COMBINED SHIRT-COLLAR AND NECKT IE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 276,023, dated April 17, 1883] Application filed August 25, 1882. (N 0 model.)

To all whom z't may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES GERBER, of York, in the county of York and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Combined Shirt-Collar and Necktie; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the same.

The object of my invention is to provide an improvement in the class of combined shirtcollars and neckties, and more especially to adapt the collar to be reversed, so that it may be worn either side out and the tie still conceal the ends of the collar-band. For this purpose I provide each end of the collar-band with a slot which is located contiguous to the button-hole, and permanently attach the ties or pieces forming the necktie adjacent to such slots, so that when the collar is reversed the ties may be drawn through the slots, and thus brought on the outer side of the collar-band, and thereby conceal the ends of the latter in the usual way.

In the accompanyingdrawings, forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my combined collar and tie. Fig. 2 is a perspective view, showing one of the ties partly drawn through a slot and the other completely drawn through, as required when the collar is reversed.

The collarA is of the class commonly known as turn-down, and is faced or embossed on both sides, so that when soiled on one side it may be reversed and worn the other side out.

The strips B B of fabric, constituting the ties, are permanently attached to the collarband by means of eyelets at points located two inches (more or less) from the button-hole,

and contiguous to each such point, a, between it and the nearest button-hole b, is a semicircular slot, 0, out transversely or crosswise of the band. When the collar A is first Worn it is attached to the shirt-band with the ties B B on the outer side of the collar-band, as shown in Fig. 1, in which case the ties B B extend across the slots 0, and thus conceal them and the ends of the collar-band. Now, to adapt the collar for reversal, the ties B B are drawn through the slots 0, as shown in the right-hand portion of Fig. 2, so that they again appear onthe outer side of the collar-band, as shown in the left-hand portion of Fig. 2.

The object in making the slots 0 semicircular in form is that they may have suficient length to accommodate ties of the usual or required width without weakening the collarband, as would be the case were the slots out straight across the same. The ties BB are made of unequal length to facilitate forming a bow in the required artistic manner.

By the construction and combination of parts above described I provide areversible combined collar and tie at minimum cost.

What I claim is The reversible shirt-collar having slots in its hand, and the ties permanently attached to the latter in rear of said slots, as shown and described.

The above specification of my invention signed by me in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' CHARLES GERBER.

Witnesses:

AMOS W. HART, CHAS. A. PETTIT. 

